Bodaggit23
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My mistake on the rebate, post fixed.
Look, you can call me retarded all day long, but from my perspective, it's worth the extra couple hundred dollars for the 1366 platform.
Core i5 750 or Core i7 920
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My mistake on the rebate, post fixed.
Look, you can call me retarded all day long, but from my perspective, it's worth the extra couple hundred dollars for the 1366 platform.
Bodaggit23
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For gaming i5, for video editing it's i7. So which ever you do more go with it, very simple
Why recommend a P55 chipset for gaming?
There's nothing wrong with it at all. 8x/8x has a 1-2% drop in performance, and thats if you are crossfiring 5870's. Even 4x/4x only has a 5-6% decrease in performance compared to 16x/16x, and again thats if you are using very powerful cards only.
Single still runs at 16x, and if you have a good enough single card you won't have any problems anyway.
Bodaggit23
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But why specifically point out a limited platform for gaming, when the X58 is a much more obvious choice for gamers and multiple GPU's?
You just stated yourself the decrease in performance...
Bodaggit23
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Your particular board, yes, 16x or 8x/8x
Others with P55 boards are not so lucky. Some are 16x/4x
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OMG!!!!!!!!
Do you really think you are gonna notice 1-2%??? And this is when using 5870's, which almost no one is using, there will be 0% difference with gtx260's.
And most p55 boards have 8x/8x with SLI + crossfire capabilites. The only ones that don't are crap boards that are under $140.
Bodaggit23
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You're right. I changed my post, although I think you overstated about most boards
being both Crossfire and SLI.
Btw, you should relax a bit. This is an online forum, after all, not the world series.
2048Megabytes
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My brother was thinking about buying a Core i7 Processor but running his system with two monitors. I told him to steer clear of Socket 1156 because of this. There isn't anyway you could run two monitors off a Socket 1156 motherboard is there?
Bodaggit23
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Of course you could, why not?
bomberboysk
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Very easily.....almost every gpu made these days has dual outputs on it. Or in the case of the new ati cards with eyefinity you can run three cards, and soon on the pure displayport edition you can run six displays.
2048Megabytes
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I should have also specified that he wanted to run Scalable Link Interface (SLI). The Socket 1156 motherboards have problems with Crossfire and SLI don't they?
Bodaggit23
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They don't have problems running multiple cards, the P55 chipset is just limited to 16 total PCI-E lanes.
That has nothing to do with the motherboard, CPU, or socket type. Thats all depends on the graphics card.
No, not problems. As Bodaggit mentioned the P55 chipset is limited to 16 lanes, so in SLI or crossfire it each 16x slot with run at 8x. But this is no big deal at this time, because even the new powerhouse 5870 only looses 1-2% performance. Any GTX 200 series or ATI 4000 series will not have any performance loss whatsoever at 8x. Now, some P55 boards only have the second slot at 4x, and actually all the ones I've seen with 4x do NOT do SLI they only can do crossfire. So just be careful when selecting a board.
If you have plenty of money to spend, just go 1366 I7. For me and MANY others, I'd rather get the I5 and an 1156 board to save money and put it elsewhere in the system like a better GPU, PSU, or hard drives etc. Because currently the I7 is overkill for 99% of applications, the I5 is still an awesome CPU and nothing AMD has currently will beat it.
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